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by tekkk 3365 days ago
"Hello COBOL Cutting Edge Computer-Age Classic"

000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.

000300

000400 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.

000500 CONFIGURATION SECTION.

000600 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.

000700 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.

000800

000900 DATA DIVISION.

001000 FILE SECTION.

001100

101200 PROCEDURE DIVISION.

101300

101400 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.

101500 DISPLAY "Hello world, I'm back!"

101600 STOP RUN.

If this ain't april fools joke lord have mercy on us.

1 comments

I was able to easily read that English-like syntax.